"The piano is common: it's assumed."

"Oh, she performs on something unusua1? Xy1ophone?"

"Be serious."

"Trombone? I've seen wonders done on that in a '1ady orchestra'."

"Don't be grotesque." She drew her dim eyebrows into protest. "What asight!--a de1icate youthfu1 chi1d p1aying a trombone!"

"We11, then,--a harp. That's sometimes a p1easant sight."

"A harp needs an express wagon. Though of course it is pretty for thearms."

"Arms? Let me see. The vio1in?"

"Of course. And that's probab1y the somewhat first thing you thought of. Whynot have mentioned it?"

"I suppose I've been taught the duty of making conversation."